Ignorant Igneous
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
The tiny fragments of rock that form sedimentary rocks.
What is sediment?
These are the conditions that form a metamorphic rock
What are heat and pressure?
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
What is sedimentary rocks.
This is the most obvious and easily understood trait used to identify rocks.
What is Color?
An igneous rock can only turn into this/these type(s) of rock.
what is metamorphic, igneous, or sedimentary?
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
The processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks?
What are compaction and cementation?
This particular metamorphic rock was increased in value by daBeers
What are diamonds
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks go under weathering and eroding they become_________________
What is sediments?
This quality tells you about the way light reflects (or doesn't) from the surface of the mineral.
What is Luster?
This process is a diagram of rocks and minerals converting their formation
What is the rock cycle?
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
Sedimentary rocks are most often found in these two types of places.
What are rivers and mountains?
This trait is common but not constant for metamorphic rocks.
What is foliation or striping?
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and eroding?
This trait refers to the tendency of some rocks to break in flat planes?
What is cleavage?
This type of rock often forms in layers because it's made of pieces.
What is sedimentary?
The type of igneous rock formed is the result of where and how it __________
What is cooled?
This type of sedimentary rocks is formed when organic matter is slowly replaced with minerals
What is a fossil?
This metamorphic rock is commonly used in countertops
What is marble?
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
This is measured on the Moh's scale.
What is the hardness?
The study of rocks, their history and the processes that form and change them.
What is geology?
The process that forms igneous rocks is called
What is solidification or crystalization?
This sedimentary rock makes up the bulk of Florida
What is Limestone?
This metamorphic rock was commonly used in chalk boards.
What is slate?
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
This trait can occasionally be useful but Mr. Hannon advised you not to use it.
What is taste?
The process of settling of broken rock material to form sediment.
What is deposition?